The New York Times crossword puzzle
1 Metric weight
unit 5 Water-skiing
spot
9 Train travel 13 Dalai ___ (spiritual leader)
14 Hat's edge 15 Actor Alan of
"M*A*S*H" 16 *Mattel offering with cards for making "hilarious comparisons" 19 Pescetarianism and veganism, for two
20 Title for Walter Scott or Isaac Newton
21 Bit of skin ink 22 Conclude 23 *Washington's official state sport since 2022 27 Gazpacho or pho
29 Negative replies 30 One nickname
for Elizabeth 31 Autoinjection
device
Across
33 Seriously
uncool 35 *Beanbagtossing sport 37 Kick off 39 Worried feeling 42 Mix 43 Sandwich that's usually toasted, informally 44 Actor
Hemsworth 46 *App craze of the early 2010s, familiarly 50 Swim-bike-run
race, for short 51 Pose questions 52 Tic-tac-toe win 53 Olympic great
Jesse 55 Dystopian novel/film series … or what the answers to the starred clues are? 59 Rosemary or
mint
60 Medical
breakthrough 61 Matter before a
court
62 Canadian gas brand 63 "Don't worry your pretty little ___" 64 Chooses
Down
1 Forest clearings 2 U.S. soccer
star Megan 3 Filled with intense excitement 4 Grain used in
beermaking 5 Ozs. and ozs. 6 "Wherefore ___
thou Romeo?" 7 Stalls at malls 8 Send a message by computer 9 Genre for Da
Brat or DaBaby 10 Full of hot air 11 "In a perfect
world ..." 12 "In
conclusion …" 17 Mind-reading ability, for short 18 ___-Columbian
(up to 1492) 24 Unreactive 25 New Haven's
state: Abbr. 26 Get serious 28 Jean-Luc ___, captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise 32 Olympic code for Lisbon's land
33 Dos and ___ 34 Cry at a soccer
stadium 36 Streaming service with "The Bear" 37 Apt rhyme of
"caches" 38 Fiddles
(with) 40 Guide to navigating an internet resource 41 Sincere 42 Harshly
denounce 43 Sturdy shoe, or
an Irish accent 45 Opposites of
hits
47 "Who asked
___?" 48 Spiral-shelled
mollusk 49 Refuse to
share
54 Texas city that's home to Baylor University 56 "True Detective"
airer
57 Period of
history
58 "___ (Taylor's Version)," #1 album of 2021